It’s Official: The Supernatural Has No Place In WWE

Invisible cameras aside, the shows are filmed and the characters are mostly aware that they are filmed. They have to be. We are welcomed to the show because it is a show. Roman Reigns acknowledges the ratings and popularity of this filmed show, which is available for him to watch after the fact on the critically acclaimed WWE Network, as the focal point of his 'Head of the Table' character. The show exists in the context of the show. People get killed on this show, and Riddle continues to scoot about like the dipsh*t he is.

Randy Orton and the Fiend feuded across 2020 and 2021 in an all-time bad storyline that was even worse than the immolations and the goo and the doppelgängers that disappeared after one week, just like Orton's disfiguring burns. You killed the motherf*cker, Randy. What's a draping DDT going to do in the WrestleMania blowoff? What's an RKO going to do? As it turns out, an RKO is as powerful as burning somebody to death, but that's neither here nor there. Remember, in Halloween, when Laurie Strode attempted to subdue the invincible void of humanity Michael Myers with a collar-and-elbow tie-up before transitioning into a hammerlock?

The idea that everything, even immolation, circles back to pro wrestling is preposterous. But it has to circle back to wrestling because WWE is wrestling, no matter how much Vince McMahon wishes to deny that to himself.

None of this sh*t is moving the needle, either. If it was rubbish but popular, the conversation becomes more nuanced. It isn't. It's rubbish, and ratings are sliding after the usual WrestleMania spike.

Here's the usual response:

"Erm, have you heard of a little-known wrestler going by the name of the Undertaker you dumb c*nt?!"

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